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Paris: Science & Innovation Lens

Where science meets the City of Light: tech campuses, great inventions and Paris highlights.

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The programme

An example programme: we adapt the visits, the length and the budget to your group.

  1. A student group walking through Paris
    Day 1

    Station F & Arts et Métiers

    • MorningStation FThe world’s largest startup campus, inside a former railway hall: meet the founders and see how an idea becomes a company.
    • AfternoonMusée des Arts et MétiersThree centuries of inventions, from Pascal’s calculator to Foucault’s pendulum, in a former priory.
    • EveningRestaurant dinner
  2. The Champs-Élysées seen from above
    Day 2

    La Défense, Palais & Seine cruise

    • MorningLa Défense business districtEurope’s largest purpose-built business district: skyscrapers, the Grande Arche and a glimpse of the working world.
    • AfternoonPalais de la DécouverteClassic hands-on science experiments in the heart of Paris, subject to the museum’s reopening.
    • AfternoonChamps-ÉlyséesEnd with a stroll up the world’s most famous avenue.
    • EveningBateaux-Mouches cruiseAfter a restaurant dinner.
  3. La Géode at the Cité des sciences
    Day 3

    Cité des Sciences

    • MorningCité des SciencesEurope’s largest science museum: interactive exhibitions for curious minds, beside the mirrored Géode.
    • AfternoonLa Géode & Parc de la VilletteA giant film screen inside the mirrored sphere, then fresh air in one of Paris’s great parks.
    • EveningRestaurant dinner
  4. An Airbus A380 at the Air and Space Museum
    Day 4

    Air and Space & departure

    • MorningMusée de l’Air et de l’Espace, Le BourgetBy private coach. Half a day among Ariane rockets, Concorde and the giant Airbus A380.
    • AfternoonDepartureMid-afternoon transfer to the station or airport.

Packed lunch every day. In Paris the group travels by metro with transport passes; trips outside Paris are by private coach. Visits depend on season and availability.

Curriculum links

  • GCSEPhysics: forces and motion, and space physics, at the Air and Space Museum and the Cité des Sciences
  • GCSEBusiness: enterprise and entrepreneurship, meeting start-up founders at Station F

Learning objectives

  • See how an idea becomes a company, at the world’s largest startup campus.
  • Follow three centuries of inventions, from Pascal’s calculator to the Airbus A380.
  • Explore physics and technology hands-on at the Cité des Sciences.

We list only the links we can stand behind, and adapt the objectives to your own syllabus. A Teacher Pack comes with every trip: objectives for each day, student activity sheets and group leader information.

Add to your trip

French cooking classChocolate museum & workshopStation FOpéra de ParisMusée d’OrsayMusée de l’OrangerieParc des PrincesStade de FranceLa DéfenseA French guide for the whole stay

Included

  • 3 nights with breakfast, packed lunch and dinner
  • All visits and entrance fees
  • Paris transport passes and the Teacher Pack

Not included

  • Travel to Paris
  • Supervision of students, by your staff
  • Travel insurance

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